Foreign Students Say Canada Is Exploiting Them for ‘Cheap Labor’
- 2021 permit extension left many hopeful migrants in limbo
- Government defends opportunities afforded to newcomers
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Some foreign students are accusing the Canadian government of using them as a cheap source of labor and discarding them once they’re no longer needed.
Last year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government allowed about 50,000 foreign students to stay for 18 months after graduation to seek employment, during a time when the economy was reopening from Covid shutdowns and companies needed to hire.